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faux Socialism.

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Is that right?  55 percent of the likely voters in 2010 have no idea what it is Socialism?  Or, correction– and  more to the point, 55 percent of “likely voters” think Obama is a socialist.

Even Ron Paul doesn’t fall for that line.  Then again, Ron Paul is… Ron Paul, and not every other Republican.
Mental note: I’ve been meaning to listen to the various talk radio hosts to guess the size of each hosts’ spit glass.

Maybe there’s nothing all that new here.  Let me at it for a minute, and I will show references to every president being called “Socialist” post McKinley up to Harding, and post Calvin Coolidge.  (Note that would be Representative Barber, in his ad with various Founding Fathers — railed against… the Progressive Income Tax!)  Meantime, our Socialists aren’t even really Socialists. 

To be sure, here’s the first four images that get tracked when you google Obama and Socialism.

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Strangely, I have to go to the next row to get to the Heath Ledger image that got the “Socialism” tag affixed to it.

But wait.  That last one is a little bit weird, isn’t it?  Is there any way to comment on it other than to say “um.  erm.  huh.”

Lincoln abounds in today’s imaginings.  Just ask Oliver North.

And, just to make sure I got the point, he added: “Yesterday we took our kids to Charleston. We went to the Citadel and out to the point where they fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. I’m a ‘Damned Yankee.’ I believe slavery was evil. But the way our government is acting today, I think I understand why the South seceded.”

That’s strong stuff from an educated man who took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic” and served our country in uniform. The April 12-13, 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter he referred to began the bloodiest confrontation in American history. Academics still debate whether Presidents James Buchanan and his successor, Abraham Lincoln, could have prevented the cataclysm over states rights. Sadly, the Obama administration, by ineptness or design seems intent on enflaming similar disputes through repeated assertions of federal “authority.”

This is a different historical conversation than Rick Barber is having with Abraham Lincoln.

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Now that’s more like the Obama – Lincoln Chains Cartoon!

I need a roll call on where does everyone stand on the 13th and 14th Amendments.

… and… Abraham Lincoln was… what?

In the Siena survey, Lincoln is No. 3. He leads all presidents in ability to compromise, executive appointments, executive ability and domestic accomplishments — i.e., preserving the Union.

But not even Lincoln is safe from the new revisionism. The Texas Board of Education revised school curriculums to soften slavery as a cause of the Civil War. At the CPAC conference last February, one Thomas DiLorenzo led a seminar on the war’s origins. He is author of “The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War.”

The “real” Lincoln, as seen by DiLorenzo, was committed to mercantilism — or socialism as it is interpreted — as well as to “contralized government and the pursuit of empire.”

Gad, I hate the Texas Board of Education.  But at least they’re not much into reframing Lincoln to slide neatly and squarely into your own ideology — hm?

It could be worse.  I’ve seen worse debates.

He Said / She Said; weird Taiwanese Media outlet recreates

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

I suppose you may have seen the Taiwanese CGI re-creation of the alleged Al Gore sexual assault against his massauge in Portland, Oregon.

If not, here it is.

God, aren’t we glad this wasn’t around during the Clinton Impeachment.  Or, maybe you are not glad — I don’t know.  You probably have some sim characters lying around that you can refashion some of those scenes yourownself.

I will note the “Happy Ending Massage [Uncut Version]” which pops up on the sidebar, and after the thing finishes.  I trust it’s not the same “Next Media” outlet, but a more shifty oufit — otherwise, this media outlet is flushing its reputation down the toilet.  But they may have already done so — I don’t know what this story is based upon — but then, I don’t follow Justin Bieber’s career so I don’t know the rumors.  (Did he tour North Korea?)  If I can’t trust New Media’s CGI recreated news stories, who can I trust?

No, I do not like this Lebron James fellow.

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Okay.  In case you are curious to know what I think about Lebron James.

I hate the guy.  I hate him for holding an hour long presentation on ESPN, hyped up beyond all parody, entitled “The Decision”, a presentation wholly and fully about Lebron James and his “decision” after courting various NBA sports teams.  I could care less on the idea of him changing teams, I have no amicus for what is, in the end, a pretty standard happen-stance: joining other teams in Free Agency.
For the love of gawd, just sign and be done with it.

The thing is surreal.  Is this right?  Upon his declaration that he was going to the Miami Heat, ESPN jumped over to a Miami gathering where an audience cheered jubilantly, and then to a Cleveland gathering full of the bitter fans that just went from loving him to hating him?  I can not come up with a proper comparison for that one.  THAT was the moment that we were all waiting for.

The great quote of the day is from random fan shouting “Lebron James is dead to me!”  The Cavaliers owners, who — incidentally threatened to take the team down to Oklahoma City some years back — is revving that sentiment up in Comic Sans.  I will say this: Lebron James is, indeed, dead to me — I will not be spending all that much time thinking about him.  The NBA is fixed, ain’t it? I do not believe that is the case with the man shouting “Lebron James is dead to me” — who has new and worse Laundry to root for.

Bill Lauten, Igor Panarin, Kesha Rogers, and Rachel Brown. Oh My!

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Hm.  In all my haste to figure out how many votes Summer Shield received in the June primary, I missed this candidate.

billlautenwithobamahitlerposter Yes, it’s Bill Lauten, receiving a full one hundred percent of the primary vote in the race to decide the American Independence Party candidate for State Treasurer of California.  As you see from previous runs for office, he can not be bought.

A history of the American Independent Party is instructive.  From a launching pad for the presidential bid of George Wallace in 1968, the party has since bumped up into the “Constitution Party” — a sort of Christian Reconstructionist political party — and is today splintered into two.    It’s the fate of third parties sometimes, more fun to be had in the comments section.  I do believe that the word “Independent” should be outlawed for use of any political party — loaded as it is, and there’s a pattern (seen in Oregon recently) of an “Independent Party” launching and immediately taking its place as third political party — for use with potential Fusion law corruption.

So, as per Bill Lauten:
Here’s 4 examples of LaRouche credibility.

I will be sure to follow the campaign of Bill Lauten on into November’s destiny with — what did he get last time?  5 percent of the vote?  He’ll fall short of that.

(4) LaRouche PAC bring the Glass-Steagall resolution to city councils.HINT: Is Beth Krom still on the Irvine City Council? If not will she sign anyway?

Sure, why not?  A curious thing to note about the recent LPAC article “LaRouche Announces the Role He’ll Play In a Post-Obama Administration” — looking ahead, I suppose for the year 2013 or 2017 when — assuming he’s still alive — he’ll play the same role he’s been playing for the past forty years — the articles listed — a lot of disgruntled Huffington Post articles — would do well to be linked to so that I can see them for myself.  I am a bit curious to note this dangling bit, though:

“Prison Planet” asks, “Do you feel independent knowing that Congress has tried to stop Glass-Steagall?” Similarly commentator Bob Moriarty.

It is worth noting that “Prison Planet” did not ask that question, but this guy.  Still, they picked this piece up from Prison Planet.  That’s worth something.  I don’t know about the next dangling sentence fragment — a lack of proof-reading, I suppose.  Anyway, FANTATIC:

A new spirit abroad, namely a qualitatively new phase in the complex, self-changing mind of the mass-strike process, could be seen in the reports from Kesha’s campaign on July 4, when among many other developments, her “impeachment” float was given the trophy for “best individual float” in the Stafford, Texas parade. “No coincidence,” Lyndon LaRouche said. Something similar was seen earlier at the Texas Democratic Convention, where 150 participants were convinced to sign the Glass-Steagall resolution even while complaining that they didn’t want to sign anything which bore LaRouche’s name. It is reported that such changes are shown in the new, live-camera interviews of field organizing.

I am very much interested in seeing the float, and the floats that the “Impeach Float” beat out.  I sought out a question for someone from the City of Stafford, Texas — am not holding my breath for a response.  I suppose, given that this is the most exciting moment of the Kesha Rogers Campaign so far — the cleanest show of some public approval since the March Nomination — they would do well to post the float, replete with Blue Ribbon or Golden Trophy, or whatever prize trinket the Float received.
Mother Jones dropped the ball in failing to report on the Float victory.

But in late June, that didn’t stop Rogers from showing up with a posse of her supporters at the state party’s annual convention in Corpus Christi, where they handed out leaflets and periodically broke into song—Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus,” to be precise, to emphasize the LaRouche movement’s belief in a classical Western education. “People were very moved by this,” Rogers says. “They want leadership, they want beauty.” Rogers adds that some delegates even contributed money to her campaign on the spot, though she couldn’t specify exactly how much she raked in at the event.

Outside the convention center, however, the scene was less than harmonious. About a dozen of Rogers’ supporters were ordered to move off the grounds, prohibited from wearing their campaign T-shirts or distributing campaign literature on the premises since they were not official delegates. They ended up moving their operation to the sidewalk a few blocks down the road. Matt Glazer, an Austin Democratic strategist who attended the convention, declined to take a flyer from one LaRouche supporter—and says he was verbally assailed as a result. “He screamed out, ‘You guys are just as bad as the Republicans—as the Nazis,'” says Glazer, who claims the man continued by “calling me everything from a fag to an asshole, to telling me I had mental disabilities.” […]

In 2003, she was elected to become a local Democratic precinct chair in Harris County, serving for two years before she made an ultimately unsuccessful bid for chair of the Texas Democratic Party in 2006. “She was a very good speaker—very articulate, very passionate,” says political consultant Harold Cook, former executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, recalling Rogers’ speech. “She didn’t mention in her speech a single wacky thing that she believes…If I didn’t know her, I might have voted for her, too.”

Tomorrow, at Coffess Oasis down in Texas, Kesha Rogers and Ian Overton will put on a presentation.  It will “develop a picture of the global economic breakdown crisis, and how the reinstatement of FDR’s 1933 Glass-Steagall banking law is essential if the USA is to regain control of its economy, and avoid a hyperinflationary collapse.”   I’ll instead defer to Igor Panarin.

On June 22, the 69th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Prof. Igor Panarin escalated his current series of public attacks on the British Empire as the historical, “and contemporary,” adversary of Russia. “I find it necessary to repeat once again today,” said Panarin in an interview with KM.ru, “that the leaders of the British Empire should confess to having organized both World War I and World War II, and a public tribunal should be organized to determine who organized the First and Second Wars, and why.” He said that holding such a tribunal now would be justified because of the “holocaust of the Soviet people” which resulted.

Professor Panarin is the Dean of History at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, best known for his forecast of the coming fragmentation of the United States. Few reports on his statements note, however, that Panarin attributes the anti-U.S. plan to a London-centered group of financiers.

Panarin told KM.ru, “June 22 is a tragic date in our history. But I think that the sudden attack on the USSR by Germany was arranged not only by fascist Germany, but also by the British Empire. That might seem to be a paradox, since those two countries were adversaries at that moment. But, it is only strange at first glance.” The professor then reviewed his argument that some Bolsheviks, such as Leon Trotsky, were “agents of British Intelligence” (as established in Panarin’s recent video briefing, which highlighted Trotsky’s relationship with British spies Robert Bruce Lockhart and Sidney Reilly), who had been suppressed by Stalin. Unable to achieve the control over the Soviet Union which it had sought, said Panarin, “the British Empire decided to prepare World War II, where fascist Germany would act as the strike force for an attack on the USSR. It has long been no secret that it was the British (the Bank of England, in particular) who financed the Nazi Party….”

I think in plasting this revisionist Soviet nostalgia of Igor Panarin, the Larouche org just wants to validate the theory of Cliff Kincaid, percolating about, that Larouche and Alex Jones are Russian agents.  See too that prison planet reference!  It makes as much sense as launching yourself at Glass Steagal and claiming it as your own.
Lyndon LaRouche summed it up: “That’s what I expected. I’ve been waiting for these things to show up, because I knew they would tend to have to show up. In what form, I wouldn’t know in advance, but I knew it would have to happen.”
Or, the strange spectacle of Republicans wondering where their nation went since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980?  Why does John Boehner refer to the “America they grew up in” – Tom Coburn contemplate loss of freedom from ”30 years ago” and Glenn Beck on the better times of 1979?

As I skip from Michael Moore’s to “Dude, Where’s My Country?” — 2003 — over to Jerry Doyle’s “Have You Seen My Country Lately?”, I recognize one major difference.  The “Left” throws a greater jab at contemporary popular culture than the “Right”.
Here I would encourage you to read the wikipedia synopsis of “Dude Where’s My Car?”  In part because there’s a good chance you didn’t see it, and it behooves you to know a little bit more than you did before about various trifling irrelevancies.

Impeachment History:

As the public tempest had swelled, some wanted Washington impeached.  Cartoons showed the President being marched to a guillotine.  Even in the President’s beloved Virginia, Revolutionary veterans raised glasses and cried “A Speedy Death to General Washington!”
With the national surge of anger toward Washington, some Americans complained that he was living luxuriously as George III.  Using old forgeries, several columnists insisted that Washington had been secretly bribed during the war by British agents.
Still others charged that the President stole military credit from soldiers who had bled and died.  “With what justice do you monopolize the glories of the American Revolution?”
Reeling from the blows, the 63 year old Washington wrote that the “infamous scribblers” were calling him “a common pickpocket” in “such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied for Nero.”

Okay.  Let’s finish by pointing to a big event in the Rachel Brown for Congress campaign, coming up in a month.

Come and participate in an evening of beauty, dignity, and joy in honor of the 200th birth year of Robert Schumann and the beautiful culture he fought to create. A concert of choral and solo works by Robert Schumann, W.A. Mozart, J.S. Bach, and other great, will be performed by campaign staff and guests. The Rachel Brown campaign is committed to reviving Classical humanist culture in a time where the Obama administration and lackeys such as Barney Frank, are degrading and killing off the population through savage budget cuts and fascist economic policies. Please bring your families and friends.

Bring your family and friends! as we battle the British Obama Frank stooges as they wipe off the population!  Weee.  Weeee.   Weeee.

Senate Campaign News that grabbed my attention

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Clint Didier is rocking Eastern Washington.  Clint Didier is endorsed by Sarah Palin.

Alvin Greene has proposed the way to save the Economy is by opening up the Alvin Greene Doll Industry.  Which seems to me just a stop gap to cover from the death of this industry.

Rand Paul is now tied in the polls with Jack Conway.

David Vitter’s aide… Comment in the comments section that gets to the heart of the matter: Who cares about the former aid. what about the hookers and the diapers?

Joe the Plumber backed candidate wants Obama’s Missouri votes to be deleted due to Birth Certificate concerns, is hoping for Sarah Palin’s endorsement.

Russ Feingold, throwing a wrench against temporary Senate appointments, looks for Right wing support.

New York Times insists race in Connecticut is a toss-up, even though there’s never been a poll that shows the Republican candidate within single points of the Democratic candidate, is apparently still hyping up their news “Scoop”.

NRA goes to bat for Harry Reid.  If he loses the race, the Majority Leader would probably be either Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin.  The ease with which the US is relaxing gun laws will be hampered in.

Sharron Angle’s old website

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

The Harry Reid Campaign stuck up an anti-Sharron Angle campaign, which was basically just a replication of the Campaign website that Sharron Angle took down upon her nomination.  Sharron Angle then sent a cease and desist order claiming copyright ownership.

If you were Sharron Angle…

She does have a point, or sorts, with this one.

The Angle campaign also claimed that by leaving fill-in boxes for e-mail addresses intact, the Reid campaign was in a position to gain contact information of Angle’s supporters who were deceived into thinking this was actually her site. Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy said in a press release: “Make no mistake, the Reid campaign was forced to take this site down because they were breaking several laws and trying to deceive the voters.”

Which is why the Harry Reid campaign removed them when they took the website down before putting the website back up.  We’ll see where Sharron Angle goes from there, I suppose.

tap tap tap…

I have a theory about running for political office.  A candidate should go about laying out his own scandal:  something relatively serious but not too much so in his or her background, sprung at the opportune time, which will be rolled over and beaten to death and lead to something of “Scandal Fatigue”, rebound against his or her opponent — even if it gives the candidate a sheen of a “Used Car Sales person”.  It might work with Sharron Angle — dribble out one view or other, and let any new view be an “Old News” as you continue pointing out that Harry Reid is a transactional politician manning the machinery.

(shrug.)

On the Siena List Changes

Monday, July 5th, 2010

In case you’re curious, here’s the changes that were made with the Siena poll between 2002 and 2010.

Abraham Lincoln.  Was #3.  Now is #2.
Theodore Roosevelt.  Was #2.  Now is #3.
Woodrow Wilson.  Was #6.  Now is #8.
Harry Truman.  Was #7.  Now is #9.
James Monroe.  Was #8.  Now is #7.
James Madison.  Was #9.  Now is #6.
James Polk.  Was #11.  Now is #12.
John Adams.  Was #12.  Now is #17.
Andrew Jackson.  Was #13.  Now is #14.
John Kennedy.  Was #14.  Now is #11.

It is here that we have a new divider.  Barack Obama has been inserted to the list at #15.  Does hit belong there?  To hell if I know.  I do enjoy the carping from Reagan fans that they’ve barely seen him ever on any of these lists crack the top 10.

Lyndon Johnson keeps his same assessment, at #15 in 2002, at #16 in 2010.  And so…

Ronald Regan goes from #16 to #18.
John Quincy Adams goes from #17 to #19.
Bill Clinton jumps from #18 to #13.
William McKinley falls from #19 down to #21.
Grover Cleveland jumps from #20 by remaining at #20.
William Howard Taft falls from #21 down to #24.
George Herbert Walker Bush rises from #22 by remaining at #22.

And George W Bush?  Falls from #23 (when, I suppose, he was thought of as another Bush, and in the shadow of a 9/11 Glow) down to #39.

This throws the poll into another great rippling.

Martin Van Buren rises from #24 to #23.
Jimmy Carter falls from #25 to #32 — the second greatest noticable drop.
Richard Nixon falls from #26 to #30 — notable as well.
Rutherford Hayes falls from #27 to #31, as though his fate is to entwined with Nixon’s.
Gerald Ford rises in esteem by hanging steady at #28.  Something has changed to pull him ahead of Nixon.
Calvin Coolidge rises in esteem by hanging steady at #29.
Chester Arthur jumps to Carter’s old spot (or, I guess Martin Van Buren if we subtract Obama) , going up from #30 to #25.
Herbert Hoover falls from #31 down to #36.  It is not hard to figure out why.
Benajamin Harrison falls from #32 to #34.
James Garfield jumps from #33 to #27 — another ripple here — why his rise in esteem, I haven’t got a clue.
Zachary Taylor goes from #34 to #33.
Ullyseus Grant goes from #35 to #26 — another one of those great ripples, and it’s been a long march upward for him.
William Henry Harrison goes from #36 to #35.
John Tyler remains at #37 — again, that counts as a jump forward.
As with Millard Fillmore at #38.
And the bottom four remain the same, joined in the bottom five by you know you.

What does it mean that Lincoln has usurped Teddy Roosevelt for the number two spot?  A bit of “Team of Rivals” haliography.  Similarly, John Adams’s fall comes as David McCollough’s book fades away from its 2001 publication.  What’s up with James Madison rising?  Probably the same with Kennedy.

The strange jumble in the third quarter of this list is curious, and I suppose I should just suspect a game of horse-shoes.

Happy Independence Day.

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

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… (lifted from an entry at dailykos).

Benjamin Franklin then proceeds to, um… take away Kool Aid Man’s vital fluids, like the Vampire he is — but that’s probably a pretty standard stand up comedy routine by now.

Remember: we’re citizens.  Not subjects.